Potatoe chips??

Question

What year was the first potatoe chip introduced??

Answer 1

It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by Native American/African American chef George Crum, at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer — by some accounts Cornelius Vanderbilt — who continued to send his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick and soggy.

Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation the guest was ecstatic about the new chips. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips".

They soon became popular throughout New England. Eventually, potato chips spread beyond chef-cooked restaurant fare and began to be mass produced for home consumption; Dayton, Ohio-based Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, calls itself the "oldest potato chip company in the United States."

Answer 2

August 24, 1853.

It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by Native American/African American chef George Crum, at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer — by some accounts Cornelius Vanderbilt — who continued to send his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick and soggy. Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation the guest was ecstatic about the new chips. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips". They soon became popular throughout New England. Eventually, potato chips spread beyond chef-cooked restaurant fare and began to be mass produced for home consumption; Dayton, Ohio-based Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, calls itself the "oldest potato chip company in the United States." [1]

Before the airtight sealed bag was developed, chips were stored in barrels or tins. The chips at the bottom were often stale and damp. Then Laura Scudder invented the bag by ironing together two pieces of wax paper, thereby creating an airtight seal and keeping the chips fresh until opened. Today, chips are packaged in plastic bags, with nitrogen gas blown in prior to sealing to lengthen shelf life, and provide protection against crushing.

Answer 3

It is important to keep in mind that frying potatoes was a normal part of American cooking by the middle 1850s when the potato chip first appears

Answer 4

I saw a documentary on that very thing recently. It was invented in 1852,53 (ish) by a chef in a restaurant. Apparenlty one of the patrons sent his fries back because they weren't "thin or crisp" enough for him. This kinda pi**ed the chef off and with an I'll-show-him-attitude he decided to fry him up some that were SO thin and crisp they couldn't be picked up with a fork. It turned out the guy LIKED them, and people started ordering them.

Answer 5

Here you go! ****


The story is that a Native American named George Crum was the chef at a resort called Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga County, New York, an area of rich history and old hunting grounds that the Mohawk and Iroquois tribes called "Sarachtogue." According to the account in "Panati's Origins of Everyday Things" by Charles Panati (published by Harper and Row, 1987), potato chips were invented in 1853 in Saratoga Springs, New York. A visitor to that resort city, who is often identified as Cornelius Vanderbilt (called "The Commodore"), returned a meal to the kitchen, complaining that the fried potatoes were not sliced thin enough to suit his taste. Crum was proud of his cooking and, thinking to teach the Commodore a lesson, he sliced the potatoes so thin he was sure the old man wouldn't like them that way. He didn't. He asked for them to be sliced even thinner. Now Crum responded by slicing them so thin they couldn't be eaten with a fork without breaking them. The Commodore was satisfied. He liked the crispy morsels! Crum decided not only to keep on making them that way, but eventually he opened his own restaurant and featured what became known as "Saratoga chips." By 1880, "Saratoga potatoes" were featured in Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping, edited by Estelle Woods Wilcox and reprinted by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, over a hundred years later, in 1988. In the early part of the twentieth century Saratoga chips were featured at meals for fancy occasions as well as on restaurant menus until they became popular as a snack food under the name of potato chips.

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Answer 6

they were invented a long while back by fishermen. They used to fry everything back then... especially fish and potatoes.... so they eventually came up with the "idea" of frying slim slices of potatoe... and so was born the chip... kinda lame huh? lol

Answer 7

First ones were in 1853 by a chef in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Answer 8

Potatoe?? Are you that American bloke who can't spell....the one who was caught on TV messing up in front of a load of kids! Al Gore wasn't it?

Answer 9

1853!

Answer 10

i'm guessing the same year Americans started having obesity issues